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Oleo Margarine and Kool-Aid

Politicians are running around proposing taxes on “sugary drinks” to “protect our health”.   This notion has a similar story in our past and could point to where this idea ends. After the Civil War, folks in France came up with … Continue reading →

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What you probably didn’t know about the Mayflower

The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were not planning to go to Massachusetts. The Pilgrims (a name coined for them after the fact) were similar to Puritans – except they had split with the Church of England and fled to the Netherlands to avoid religious … Continue reading →

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DEA invokes “Emergency Powers”

USA Today story “The American public looks to the DEA to protect its children and communities from those who would exploit them for their own gain,” said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. “Makers of these harmful products mislead their … Continue reading →

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IOS 4.2 released today

In addition to giving the iPad multitasking and folders, your iDevice can now print to a printer and use AirPlay to relay the streaming on your iDevice to another AirPlay enabled device like a set of speakers or an Apple … Continue reading →

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“If this escalates into a real war…”

North Korea is undergoing a transition to a new leader, and that can be a dangerous time as the military tests their power and the abilities of the new leader. Today, North Korea opened fire on a South Korean island … Continue reading →

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Guarding your “Junk”

This business about the TSA “enhanced” screening is creating a variety of reactions from talk show hosts – they seem to be falling into one of three groups: This is a bad idea because I read it on the Drudge … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Death of Old Media, Radio Biz | 8 Comments

Testing Log

Below the Volunteer lists, there is a link now to make it easier to access the “Testing Log”, which shows the recent tests performed.   There is a checkbox to ignore the “Editor”. If the background is light blue, that means that … Continue reading →

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Barbara Bush on Sarah Palin

“I think she [Sarah Palin] is very happy in Alaska, and I hope she stays there.” Barbara Bush on Larry King Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJ4vQEp6B8 Prepare yourself now that the Republican “Establishment” is preparing to run Jeb Bush for President in 2012.   … Continue reading →

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Whois NutritionMarket.com?

TRN has been running sponsorship messages on all of its programming for several months for a web site called NutritionMarket.com.  Who are they? The domain is registered through a low cost registrar called GoDaddy.com.   The actual owner information is being … Continue reading →

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The “Smart” war escalates

AFP (the French News Service) is reporting that for the first time, the U.S. Military is using M1 tanks in Vie^h^h^hAfghanistan. The Obama admistration was going to “start leaving” Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 – has now floated the … Continue reading →

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Phil Hendrie Goes Local

We seem to have a trend.   Tom Taylor’s newsletter reports today that TRN’s Phil Hendrie will be doing a 7-10PM local show on KFI in Los Angeles on Saturdays.   This comes a few days after Rusty Humphries announced he will … Continue reading →

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The Legacy of Paul Weyrich

Paul Weyrich was the Conservative’s Conservative.   He had been a Young Republican and active in the Goldwater campaign of 1964.  He went on to be co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation.   He passed away in 2008. … Continue reading →

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MTV and AOL – meet Clear Channel

The past two days, Tom Taylor has been leading with the news that Robert Pittman is becoming involved with Clear Channel and might even be looking to facilitate a buyout.   This seems extremely plausible and nobody knows the radio business … Continue reading →

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Radio Abhors a Vacuum

Salem Radio has announced they are changing the format of KLFE.-AM in Seattle to the standard News/talk format (Bennett / Gallagher / Hewitt / Prager + Dennis Miller and Mark Levin.  This fills the hole recently vacated by KVI-AM, although … Continue reading →

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Progressive Politics and Pellagra

A few days ago, a “progressive host” made the claim that before the progressives came along and forced government to require all flour to be enriched, people were suffering from a disease called Pellagra – so those ignorant Tea Party people … Continue reading →

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